It wasn't hard to miss a rectangular prism of ninety meters in length floating around in the sky. The hum it made as it passed high above villages and towns could still be heard. It was nearly impossible to be concealed in a clear sky such as today.
"I have to go to the bathroooooom!" Yoko's voice could be heard throughout the entire transport. Many of the kids in the passenger section started laughing at the sudden proclamation.
"Then go." Jack said with a flashy grin on his lips.
The old man Ye Lan and Yoko didn't know if they were supposed to laugh or cry. If she went now, she would soil his seat and the comfy abnormal clothes she was wearing.
On top of that, he might make her do some weird things, or even clean it up afterward. Her face was still red from all the sobbing and her eyes were all puffy. Yoko's thoughts had drawn a blank as she just sat there. Her legs clenching close together as she concentrating on controlling herself.
There was no hope of escaping. They were too far away from the sect and they were also too high up in the sky. The most she could do was commit suicide by jumping.
After getting to a remote location within the Empire, he began to lower the vessel. It seemed like a good place to land and it lacked threats such as bandits in the area. Once landed the doors opened and the bars released the passengers.
However the first thing Yoko noticed was that she was still strapped into the machine. "Hey… Why isn–" She was cut off by the sudden yanking of her hair as Jack came over and grasped it in his hand.
Panic settled in. Her heart started to throb, her eyes were already open so wide it felt as if they were going to rip. She let out a shriek, which caused most of the people to go running out of the transport and onto the solid ground.
"W-what are yo¬–" She paused for a moment as she saw scissors in the hand which wasn't grasping at her hair. "Haven't you already done eno¬–" She felt her head be shaken in every other direction, the sensation of her brain smacking into the interior of her skull quickly disoriented her. Yoko began dizzy, her head hurt. She wanted to hurl.
It seemed she was finished talking.
Using the scissors he would trim off the scorched ends of her hair and completely restyle it to be a bit more modern. He added layers and derived an asymmetrical bob cut out of her nice brown locks.
"There we go, just like a finely trimmed bush." Jack said as if it were to sound like a compliment. To Yoko it seemed as if she was being compared to a plant. Not that he was aiming to make her happy though.
Giving a glance to the old man with a fierce expression, Lan nodded to Jack and made his way out of the transport allowing the cockpit door to close behind him. He then looked over towards Yoko with his head tilted to the side.
Opening the squad menu, Jack would look over the screen which had appeared before him. His current squad was zero out of eight. There was the typical customization options and presets and then there was another option. In the game they allowed you to capture enemy soldiers during Fire Team missions and even recruit them. Or in terms of the menu which was right in front of him, was Indoctrination.
Selecting the Indoctrination button, Jack would watch as Yoko's eyes dialated.
Her hands immediately shot up to her face as she let out extremely loud wails. She was trying to helplessly cover her ears, but ended up hitting herself in the face with the cuff's short linked chains. The only thing that was registering in her head was extremely high pitch tones which rang out. Information she never knew, foreign tendencies and etiquette all flooded in at once. Her mind and memory were being warped and it was an incredibly painful experience.
Jack had only done this once to capture an enemy commander who was of course a woman since he was known to only have female squad members.
[ Hidden Quest Completed: Indoctrinate a Zu Cultivator. +++++ Level Up. Rank Up. ]
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The fact that he was able to level up five times in cultivation made him feel a bit wrong. Though at the same time he was rather happy he suddenly got to be a bit stronger.
Yoko was limp in the chair, her head was lulled back and her eyes were closed. Her face was twitching involuntarily. It was clear she was in pain.
Jack was watching the drool drip out of her mouth slowly before reaching over and placing the robes he had taken from her earlier and draping them over her shoulders. He then proceeded to unstrap her from the chair and pick her up over bridal style.
Once he was out of the transport however, it would have begun to fall to miniature digital-esque cubes before vanishing into thin air without a trace.
While he had been indoctrinating Yoko, the people had started building temporary housing for themselves. He stared at the recruitment window which he had open. Yoko was now designated as a member of his squad.
She was listed as Zhao Yoko, when he had his thoughts hover around her name a small caption appeared.
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'Zhao Yoko, Disciple of the Red Sea Sect, her parents were murdered by the Sect due to refusing to hand her over as an infant. She was raised by her master and instilled with the ethics and methodology of the Sect. Her ethics of right and wrong were once clouded, but have now been corrected. She is now a Loyal Soldier of your Sect.'
'After going through Indoctrination Zhao Yoko has gained Rank I Mercenary perks and has leaped into the next stage of cultivation: Pào Temperament Stage, Level 1.'
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Jack stared at the caption which had appeared and couldn't help but sigh. Assuming the Indoctrination worked, the very reason she would betray the sect has been planted in her mind. Her Master and the Sect would be the very object of her vengeance for her parents.
"She grew stronger due to the stress and all that swelling Qi inside of her." While she had been blocked from circulating the Qi throughout her body, it had somehow found its way into her core. It only kept taking on more and more as her body produced the energy, combined with the sudden infiltration by the system.
Jack proceeded to take the cuffs off of Yoko's wrists and placed her calmly in the grass. Though when he did so, her entire body relaxed and he started to take in a bitter scent.
He looked down at her and started to notice the wetness appearing within the pants of her fatigues. "Oh." He couldn't help but begin laughing as the girl had peed herself. At least he could order some more pants through the system. Though as he glanced around, it seemed the villagers were ignoring their presence for the time being and just building the start of their new homes.